Lynch slams Pentagon rescue film
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ABC News' Diane Sawyer, and Private Jessica Lynch pose in an undated publicity photo. Lynch said the US military was wrong to manipulate the story of her rescue and should not have filmed it in the first place. Lynch told Sawyer in a television interview to air Tuesday, that she was bothered by the military's portrayal of her ordeal.
PHOTO: AP
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Chen lauds creativity at Taiwan design exposition
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President Chen Shui-bian, second right, opens the 2003 Taiwan Creative Design Expo in Taipei yesterday.
PHOTO: LIN CHENG-KUNG, TAIPEI TIMES
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White Terror survivor finds peace in music, religion
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PHOTO: GEORGE TSORNG, TAIPEI TIMES
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Zonta serves as watchdog for women
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Zonta International President Margit Webjorn speaks at the organization's Seventh Far East Asia District conference in Taipei yesterday.
PHOTO: GEORGE TSORNG, TAIPEI TIMES
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Guatemala fears more poll violence
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Indigenous Mayans wait on line to find out where they will be voting in today's elections in Solola, Guatemala, some 150km west of Guatemala City on Friday.
PHOTO: AP
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Europe's papers disclose what the butler saw
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Michael Fawcett, former senior aide to Britain's Prince Charles, and his wife Debbie arrive back to their London home, Friday. Fawcett was identified in newspaper reports Thursday in connection with an alleged incident involving Prince Charles.
PHOTO: AP
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Ashcroft assigns abortion investigations to civil rights agency
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Nikki Marterre, right, of Winston-Salem, North Carolina, leads an anti-President Bush demonstration in Winston-Salem with a group of protesters outside the M.C. Benton Jr Convention and Civic Center while President Bush speaks during a Republican fundraising luncheon inside on Friday. About 300 protesters gathered outside to demonstrate against Bush's policies.
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Sniper trial prosecutors focus on the relationship between the defendants
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John Muhammad listens to the testimony of Reverend Albert Archer during court proceedings on Friday.
PHOTO: AP
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Police wade through the mire of child porn
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ILLUSTRATION: MOUNTAIN PEOPLE
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Yukos battle is souring interest in Russian oil
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The battle between President Vladimir Putin and a Russian oil tycoon has spread fears that Western companies will shy away from investing in the country's vast energy industry. Royal Dutch/Shell has pledged US$5.5 billion as the majority investor in a project for exploration and production of oil off Russia's Sakhalin Island, which is north of Japan. The Molikpaq platform pictured above is located 16km offshore from northeast Sakhalin Island.
PHOTO: NY TIMES
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Revolutionary technology is needed to stop global warming
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A solar-power satellite that transmits energy to earth via microwaves is among the possible alternatives to carbon dioxide-emitting fossil fuels. It could take advantage of the fact that the sun shines continually in space.
PHOTO: NY TIMES
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Putting magic back in the box
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Left, Fang Yuan-shih, or ``Mike the Magician,'' pulls a rabbit from a box at a recent show. Right, now retired from performing publicly, Taiwan's most famous magician Chia Ke-li, or ``The Man with the Magic Hand'' as he was once known, spends his time teaching would-be magicians and overseeing his magic store and popular Web site.
PHOTO COURTESY OF KITSCH PROMO PHOTO AND GAVIN PHIPPS, TAIPEI TI
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A mother returns for her son
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Barbara Klita rests on the bed her son slept on at the Catholic hostel in Tienhsiang, Taroko Gorge, Hualien. Klita has come to Taiwan to look for Fred Frontier who disappeared here five months ago.
PHOTO: DAVID MOMPHARD, TAIPEI TIMES
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Taiwan's religious past in the present
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Private Prayers and Public Parades
By Mark Caltonhill
208 pages
Department of Information, Taipei City Government
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Art for God's sake
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In Female Vajradhara a cartoon figure lies in the Reclining Buddha position, by Yang Mao-lin. Further statues from his exhibition Ceremonies before Rewarding - Inviting the immortals III, are shown below.
PHOTO COURTESY OF LIN &KENG GALLERY
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Black Ox Great Vidyaraja.
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Contemplative Female Vajradhara.
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Tie Vidyaraja
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Ah Chiang Deva II
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Little Vajradhara II
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The story of two women in the land of paradise
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Love
By Toni Morrison
202 pages
Alfred A. Knopf
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Lost and found but a bit disoriented
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Australian new media collective pvi took strangers for a stroll on the MRT, inside a cocoon, in their project Panopticon.
PHOTO: MAX WOODWORTH, TAIPEI TIMES
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Juliane Stiegele's Stopover leaves the viewer hanging.
PHOTO: MAX WOODWORTH, TAIPEI TIMES
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Solberg and Loeb battle in rally
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Peter Solberg of Norway drives his Subaru Impreza during the Stage 4 of the FIA World Rally Championship in Rehola, England, Friday.
PHOTO: AFP
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All Blacks put on display of power
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All Blacks scrum-half Justin Marshall, center, breaks away from South African center Jorrie Muller as his teammate All Blacks winger Doug Howlett looks on during the Rugby World Cup quater-final match between New Zealand and South Africa at Telstra Dome Stadium in Melbourne, yesterday.
PHOTO: AFP
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All Blacks fan celebrates his team's victory at the end of the Rugby World Cup quater-final match between New Zealand and South Africa at Telstra Dome Stadium in Melbourne, yesterday.
PHOTO: AFP
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Scotland's Jason White is tackled by Australia's Elton Flatley, top, and George Smith during their Rugby World Cup quarter-final match at the Suncorp Stadium, Brisbane, Australia, Saturday. Austrialia won the match score 33 - 16.
PHOTO: AP
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Wales braces for England
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English players gather around prior to the team's training ahead of their match against Wales Suncorp Stadium in Brisbane, today.
PHOTO: AFP
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